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368 Portage Co.

The Upper Wisconsin lies principally in this county, with its numerous rapids and portages, affording water power of great extent which is used at many places to manufacture pine lumber. Large quantities of lumber are annually sent down this river, and [down] the Mississippi as far as St. Louis. The "pineries" commence about eighty miles above Fort Winnebago; and here a rail road has been constructed (the first in Wisconsin) of two miles in length to convey logs from the forests to the mills. At the ["Dells"] the river &c.

Duck creek and Doty's creek are two small tributaries of the Wisconsin near Dekorra.

There are five small lakes in Portage county. Swan Lake, an expansion of the Neenah above the Portage, is three and a half miles long and half a mile wide. The water is pure, of great depth, and abounds in fish.
Mud lake is also an expansion of the same river five miles below the Portage, about one mile in length. Lake Sarah forms the source of the Neenah, about eight miles west of Fox Lake.